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verb-intransitive. To diverge from the vertical or horizontal; incline: a roof that slopes. See Synonyms at slant.

verb-intransitive. To move on a slant; ascend or descend: sloped down the trail.

v. To cause to slope: sloped the path down the bank.

n. An inclined line, surface, plane, position, or direction.

n. A stretch of ground forming a natural or artificial incline: ski slopes.

n. A deviation from the horizontal.

n. The amount or degree of such deviation.

n. Mathematics The rate at which an ordinate of a point of a line on a coordinate plane changes with respect to a change in the abscissa.

n. Mathematics The tangent of the angle of inclination of a line, or the slope of the tangent line for a curve or surface.

n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person of East Asian birth or descent.

n. An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

n. The degree to which a surface tends upward or downward.

n. The ratio of the vertical and horizontal distances between two points on a line; zero if the line is horizontal, undefined if it is vertical.

n. The slope of the line tangent to a curve at a given point.

n. The angle a roof surface makes with the horizontal, expressed as a ratio of the units of vertical rise to the units of horizontal length (sometimes referred to as run). For English units of measurement, when dimensions are given in inches, slope may be expressed as a ratio of rise to run, such as 4:12 or an an angle.

n. A person of Chinese or other East Asian descent.

v. To tend steadily upward or downward.

v. To try to move surreptitiously.

v. To hold a rifle at a slope with forearm perpendicular to the body in front holding the butt, the rifle resting on the shoulder.

n. An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.

n. Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

n. The part of a continent descending toward, and draining to, a particular ocean.

adj. Sloping.

ad. In a sloping manner.

v. To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to direct obliquely; to incline; to slant

verb-intransitive. To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline.

verb-intransitive. To depart; to disappear suddenly.

Inclined or inclining from a horizontal direction; forming an angle with the plane of the horizon; slanting; aslant.

n. An oblique direction; obliquity; slant; especially, a direction downward; as, a piece of timber having a slight slope.

n. A declivity or acclivity; any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.

n. Specifically— In civil engineering, an inclined bank of earth on the sides of a cutting or an embankment. See grade, 2.

n. In coal-mining, an inclined passage driven in the bed of coal and open to the surface: a term rarely if ever used in metal-mines, in which shafts that are not vertical are called inclines. See shaft and incline.

n. In fort., the inclined surface of the interior, top, or exterior of a parapet or other portion of a work. See cut under parapet.

n. In mathematics, the rate of change of a scalar function of a vector, relatively to that of the variable, in the direction in which this change is a maximum.

n. the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal

n. an elevated geological formation

v. be at an angle

"For the path on the Candiarei side has been lately swept away by a torrent of snow and water from the Marmolata, and the whole mountain slope is here one mass of soft red mud, more slippery than ice, full of pits and fissures, and very difficult."

sloped    slopes    sloping   

inclination    descend    ascend    inside slope    slope arms    continental slope    to slope the standard    banquette slope    potential slope    exterior slope   

sloped    sloping    slippery slope   

sloping    incline    slant    depart    cant    recede    tilt   

Hope    Nope    Pope    bronchoscope    cope    dope    elope    grope    hope    lope   

ridge    hill    valley    hillside    stretch    edge    summit    height    road    bank